Bound for America : the forced migration of Africans to the New World
Haskins, Jim, 1941-1999
Book
Total copies: 3
Subject: This illustrated book for older readers opens with discussions of slavery throughout history and of Europe and Africa at the time the African slave trade began. It then examines every aspect of the Middle Passage. It includes sections on capturing the slaves, the march to the coast, slave holding pens, selecting slaves for purchase, branding slaves, conditions on slave ships, feeding and dancing the slaves, and slave revolts aboard ship. It is illustrated with historic prints, photographs, and paintings by Floyd Cooper.
Main title:
Bound for America : the forced migration of Africans to the New World / James Haskins & Kathleen Benson ; paintings by Floyd Cooper.
Imprint:
New York : Morrow Junior ; London : Hi Marketing, 1999.
Collation:
48 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
06881025819780688102586
Dewey class:
382.44HI.3.03HAS
Local class:
JUN/HAS 9-12 YEARS
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1341081